This Is Why.

This is why the Republicans are pushing trans hate, this is why all the anti-trans laws coming from Republicans… it is all about playing to their base.

Deep partisan divide on whether greater acceptance of transgender people is good for society
PEW Research
By Anna Brown
February 11, 2022


At a time when a rising share of U.S. adults say they know someone who is transgender, there is no public consensus on whether greater social acceptance of transgender people is good or bad for society, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted last July.

The question was asked as part of a broader survey that asked about the public’s views on a wide range of social and political issues, including whether different societal trends in the U.S. are generally good or bad for society.

About four-in-ten U.S. adults (38%) say that greater acceptance of people who are transgender is generally good for our society, while 32% say it is bad and 29% say it is neither good nor bad. There is a stark difference between Republicans and Democrats on this topic, and views also vary among some key demographic groups, including groups within each party.

All through grad school and the activist training that I have had they emphasized “go for the movable middle.” and don’t waste your time on those who you will never change and those who support you. It is the 29% that you have to sway. Thank those that support us and tell those who don’t that you don’t agree with them but concentrate on those who need guidance to become an ally.

This partisan gap is consistent with other findings on how the public views transgender people. For example, a 2017 survey showed that 64% of Democrats believed that whether a person is a man or a woman can be different from sex at birth, while 80% of Republicans believed just the opposite – that gender is determined by sex at birth.

We have all read the comments in news article that say that sex is all about chromosomes, look you are not going to change their 1950 view of gender… heck they don’t even believe that sex and gender are different. So don’t try to change them.

Many of these differences remain, or become even more pronounced, within each party. Republicans and GOP leaners in all major demographic groups tend more toward saying greater social acceptance of transgender people has been bad, rather than good, but certain groups are more likely to say this than others. A majority of Republicans 50 and older see this as bad for society, while roughly half of those younger than 50 say the same. Meanwhile, about three-in-ten Republican adults younger than 30 say greater acceptance of people who are transgender is good for society, larger than the shares in older age groups who say the same.

Republican men are more likely than Republican women to say greater acceptance of trans people is bad for society, and White Republicans are more likely than Hispanic Republicans to say the same. (The sample sizes of Black and Asian Republicans are not big enough to analyze separately.)

I don’t think this is a surprise to us, they are living in the 1950 “Father Knows Best” where the man’s word is law and a woman is subservient to the husband.

Amy Schneider did a fantastic job of showing people that we are just like you. Biden’s appointment of Rachel Levine the Assistant Secretary of Health, Danica Roem the Virginia legislator, Sarah McBride, elected to the Delaware state senate, and all the other local trans politicians have shown our colors. We do get elected!

Orange is the New Black was a major hit staring a trans actress, Laverne Cox, and all of these actresses and actors are bring about change, Jamie Clayton, Nicole Maines, Rachel Crowl, Michelle Hendley, Scott Turner Schofield, Brian Michael Smith, Elliot Page, and all the other actresses and actors they all are all educating the public about us.

Republicans who know a transgender person are less likely than those who don’t to say greater acceptance of people who are transgender is bad for society (45% of those who know a trans person, vs. 60% of those who do not), and they are more likely to say it’s good or neither good nor bad. Still, a plurality of those who know someone who is trans say more acceptance is bad for society: 45% say this, while 37% say it is neither good nor bad and 18% say it is good.

Just by being out and about brings about change.

We can bring about change, one person at a time.